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Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche teaches through verse, pointing out the essence of a teaching. Enjoy the quotes.

Guarding Disipline

Khenpo TsültrimGyamtso Rinpoche

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July 19, 2013

Guarding Disipline

Practice 26: The Second Paramita - Guarding discipline

If lack of discipline prevents you from benefiting yourself, Then your wish to benefit others is just a joke. Therefore, to guard discipline With no longing for worldly existence Is the practice of a Bodhisattva.

In general, discipline is of three types: First is the discipline to abandon all faults of body, speech, and mind. Second is the discipline to accumulate virtue. Third is the discipline to work for the benefit of sentient beings.

As applied to the three vehicles, giving up harming others is the discipline of the Sravakayana; benefiting others is the discipline of the Mahayana; and developing the ability to see all appearances as pure is the discipline of the Vajrayana.

If, without discipline, you cannot benefit even yourself by accomplishing the one-sided peace of nirvana, how will you be able to accomplish Buddhahood for the benefit of all other beings?